An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauRead
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
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